Charles Sheeler: Across Media - Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the twentieth century. His work is synonymous with precisionism, a crisp, clean, hard-edged style that reconciled cubist abstraction and the machine aesthetic of Marcel Duchamp with American subject matter.

Work of Janet Fish

Janet Fish: Paintings - Still life painter Janet Fish is noted for her dynamic oil paintings and watercolors, through which she "captures the beauty of everyday objects." She has won praise for her exuberant brush strokes and dazzling composition, but it is the movement of light and color shimmering off bowls, glasses, bottles, cellophane, and other iridescent and reflective surfaces that gives her work its distinctive allure.

Procedure:

1. Establish a strong composition through the use of prep sketches on newsprint. Create a specific focal point.

2. Transfer and enlarge to fit bogus paper.

3. Practice adding values to create a three dimensional appearance. Transparency can be done using light but well-defined areas with chalk. Render fabric using charcoal, then white chalk. Render solid forms, then glass areas last.

Strong and accurate drawing demonstrating proportion, dramatic composition showing a well defined focal point, value used to create the illusion of transparency and form, well written reflective statement.

Reflective Statements:

a. Describe the strongest part of your work:
b. How did you achieve unity in the work? How did you achieve transparency?
c. What problems did you encounter and how did you solve them?
d. Compared to previous projects, what drawing medium have you felt the most comfortable with and why: